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NewsJune 30, 2009 3:31pm

Congrats, Al Franken

You might recall we posted here about “A Dollar A Day To Make Norm Go Away“–a campaign to get Norm Coleman to drop his lawsuit keeping Minnesota Senator-elect Al Franken from officially taking up his seat. Good news! MN Supreme Court has ruled in his favor:  Just now, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down its unanimous verdict [PDF] on the long-running, unresolved contest between Al Franken and Norm Coleman to determine who will fill the state’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. Specifically, the decision pertains to which candidate received the most votes and whether those votes were counted (and recounted) properly. This was the whole basis of Coleman’s case against Franken, rejected by a lower court, and now rejected by the … More >>

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NewsApril 27, 2009 12:04pm

A Dollar A Day To Make Norm Go Away

MYD got an email last week from Senate Guru about the Senate race in Minnesota. A bit of background: You’ve no doubt heard the news stories surrounding the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota.  Republican Norm Coleman is playing the role of the sore loser, continuing his endless appeals in order to prevent Democratic Senator-elect Al Franken from being seated… Several Minnesota newspapers that endorsed Coleman have even urged him to abandon his fruitless appeals… Meanwhile, Washington D.C. Republicans continue to fund Coleman’s lawyers as they believe it is in their interest to keep Al Franken out of the Senate. Now, the progressive netroots have come up with a creative incentive that kills two birds with one stone. NormDollar (which has … More >>

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